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<body><div>On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, at 09:54 AM, Douglas Gregor wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><p style='color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Segoe UI",Arial,freesans,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);'>What is your evaluation of the proposal?<br></p></blockquote><div> </div>
<div>Strong +1 here. I've wanted this since day one. In fact, I filed ticket SR-64 to cover adding this a while ago.<br></div>
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<div>Yes, the lack of generic typealiases can be a real annoyance.<br></div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><ul style='color:rgb(51, 51, 51);padding-left:2em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Segoe UI",Arial,freesans,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);'><li>Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?<br></li></ul></blockquote><div> </div>
<div>Yes.<br></div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><ul style='color:rgb(51, 51, 51);padding-left:2em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Segoe UI",Arial,freesans,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);'><li>If you have used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how do you feel that this proposal compares to those?<br></li></ul></blockquote><div> </div>
<div>Both Haskell and Rust have generic typealiases and it works pretty well.<br></div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><ul style='color:rgb(51, 51, 51);padding-left:2em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Segoe UI",Arial,freesans,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);'><li>How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or an in-depth study?<br></li></ul></blockquote><div> </div>
<div>A quick reading, plus I was involved in the original swift-evolution thread.<br></div>
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<div>-Kevin Ballard<br></div>
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